The Middle Aged Revolutionary

“If the writer of these lines has succeeded in providing some material for clarifying these problems, he may regard his labours as not having been fruitless.”

V.I. Lenin, 1899

Author: JT

  • The Birmingham Bin Strike

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    Since the turn of the year, the brave bin workers of Birmingham have put up fierce resistance to obscene attacks on their wages and working conditions by Birmingham City Council. The bin workers, surviving only on strike pay, stand united and, unfortunately, virtually alone against this vicious and premeditated attack by the Labour-controlled council. Birmingham…

  • The Rise of the HMO

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    The recent news that Medway Council in Kent is considering introducing new rules on the licensing for homes in multiple occupancy (also known as HMOs) in an attempt to curb antisocial behaviour and poor housing standards is just one in a plethora of examples of the rise of the HMO and how these dwellings serve…

  • On Corbyn and Trade Unions

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    The Middle Aged Revolutionary and Comrade Terry sit down again to discuss Project Corbyn 2.0 and the trade unions, with an honourable mention to Matt Wrack’s stunning election win as NASUWT General Secretary, garnering a whopping 2.9% of the membership’s support! You can view this on YouTube by clicking here.

  • A Walk Through Lowestoft

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    Recently, my local party tasked me with visiting the Suffolk coastal town of Lowestoft to assess its suitability for us to set up a table in the future to talk to local people about the utter mess our country is in and, crucially, what we can do about it. As it turned out, I found…

  • The Death of Stonewall

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    The news that the Supreme Court had ruled that the legal interpretation of the definition of a woman under the terms of the Equality Act 2010 was based on biological sex came as a huge blow to gender ideologues across the nation, but it most certainly came as a bitter blow to the charity Stonewall.…

  • Care Work and Immigration: What It Means for Workers

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    Labour Home Secretary Yvette Cooper’s announcement on the BBC on Sunday 11th May that the practice of recruiting workers in the care industry from abroad would end would surely have been met with the wryest of smiles amongst the great and the good within the Reform Party. They would have known that they have made…

  • Labour’s £4.8bn Welfare Cuts: Clive Lewis Speaks Out

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    On 25th March, Labour MP Clive Lewis appeared on BBC’s Newsnight programme and spoke on the cuts to welfare which were predicted by reports leading up to the Spring Statement, which took place on the following day. Leftists across the land took to X and other social media outlets to whoop at Lewis’ as he…

  • Jason and Terry on Trade Unions

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    Jason and Terry discuss the decline of trade unions in Britain, the challenges of maintaining integrity as union officials, and the potential for creating Marxist trade unions. We analysed data showing union membership peaked in 1979 and has since fallen, attributing this decline to Thatcher’s policies, deindustrialisation, and the unions’ failure to recruit in new…

  • The Game’s Gone

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    On Wednesday 12th March, Real Madrid dumped their local rivals Atletico Madrid out of the Champions’ League at the last-16 stage in a penalty shoot-out after the two sides were deadlocked at 2-2 on aggregate. I don’t have a TNT Sports subscription, or a dodgy Fire Stick, so I didn’t see the match. However, on…

  • Why Are Birth Rates Declining?

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    On 28th January 2025, The Daily Telegraph ran an article entitled “How soaring housing costs have crushed the birth rate”. This article detailed the very real and potentially devastating problem of Britain’s declining birth rate and made a link, albeit tenuous, between this seemingly inexorable decline and the availability of affordable housing. The lowest birth…